Machine for the formation of blanks.



D. J. BOGAN.

MACHINE FOR THE FORMATION OF BLANKS.

APPLICATION FILED 3111.23, 1905. I

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

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MACHINE FOR THE FORMATION OF BLiNKS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1905.

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MACHINE FOR THE FORMATION OF BLANKS.

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Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

1 tion with the accompanying drawing, is a' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

DANIEL J. BOG-AN, OF BALLABDVALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BROWN-IBINNIAN COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

Application filed January 23,1905. Serial No. 242,216.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL J. BOGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ballardvale, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Machines for the Formation of Blanks, of which the following description, in connecspecification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a machine for printing and cutting out blanks from paper or cardboard at a continuous operation, and preferably printed blanks which are alike are kept together and delivered in the same receptacle. Provision has also been made for waterproofing the printed blanks at their sides and ed es. 'The paper, preferably 'in the form 0 a roll, is led over a table between paper feeding means shown as rolls and is acted upon by a'series of prlnting dies or electrotypes carried by a cylinder to which the dies are removably attached that any special die may be applied to the roller as demanded. Inkin means of suitable usual die, as the paper is fed under the cylinder,

. prints its own legend on the paper, the leg-- end being anythin desired. The paper having been printe is cut to form circular or other shaped blanks, each containing the desired legend or advertisement. The blanks are cut out by a gang of punches that deliver the blanks into guideways constructed to deliver the printed sides of the blanks uppermost and deliver them onto an endless belt or apron, and thereafter the blanks are waterproofed and assorted as will be described.

Figure l in side elevation represents a mechanism illustrating this invention in one of the best forms now known to me; Fig. 2 is a detail enlarged of the means for moving the paper and printing the same; Fig. 3 is a sectlon below the dotted line 21:, Fig. 1 with the table over which the paper is fed broken out to illustrate the endless belt below on which are deposited the blanks, the paper also being broken out; Fig. t is an enlarged detail showing the endless belt as delivering ing means; Fig. 5 is a. view of the grooves shown in'Fig. 4 looking to the right; Fig. 6 is a section through the guideway onto which the punched out blanks are delivered and the means for delivering the blanks in such manner that they will-fall on the endless belt with their printed sides uppermost;

Fig. 7 is a top and side view of the rest.- shown in Fig. 6.

The bed or flooring A sustains like end frames A united by suitable tie rods A The upper ends of the end frames A sus tain a bed A on, the top of which is secured the hollow member B of the punch to be described, over which is fed the paper a-to be cut into blanks by the solid member B of-the punch, the paper passing under a stripper plate a. Any number of solid uneh members may be used, and there will lie a hole in the hollow member B for each solid punch member- The drawing, Fig. 3, shows two rows or sets of solid pnnch members, six in each set.

The solid punch members are each shaped to correspond with the shape desired for the blank, and they are all carried by a cross head B that is reciprocated by usual cranks on a shaft B having its bearings in the uprights A, forminga continuation of the side frames, said shaft having any usual pulley or pulleys by which it may be'rotated when desired. The shaft B has an eccentrio stud C that moves a'connecting rod C, the lower end of which is attached by a clamping stud a in a slot of a pawl carrying lever a having a spring-pressed pawl 15* that engages normally the teeth of a ratchet member, as shown'best in Fig. 6, is a plate C, in holes in which are arranged the upper ends of blank guides G, into which are forced the blanks a as they are cut from the aper. The guide is so shaped as to insure Wheel a, having a connected gear I). By ad-' that the blanks drop to the bottom thereof and strike with their edges on an endless traveling belt D which carries the edge of the blank in contact with said belt toward the tongue 2, far enough to permit the left hand or unprinted side of the blank to drop on the belt. The guide has a rest 3 the posi-tion of which is determined by a screw 4 and a blank meeting the rest is so temporarily arrested as to cause the blank to be directed edgewise through the tubes.

A very. long sheet of paper a taken preferably from a roll, not shown, is led over a a table b under an ink box b*, in which there is a roller 4: that applies ink to the first roll 5 of a set of two distributing rollers 5, .6, the roller 6 supplying ink to a distributing roller 7 which applies ink to the forms or electroplates 8 detachably secured to the printing roll or form carrier D, having secured to its journal a gear D that is rotated from a gear of like size below thesame on the end of the bed roller D shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2 sustaining the underside of the paper, said roller having an attached gear D that is rotated by the gear 6 before described. It is supposed herein that the first, third and fifth forms D shown in Fig. 3, contain a different legend from the second, fourth and sixth forms.

The rollers 4, 5, 6 and 7 areand may be all as usual in printing mechanism, and these rollers will be rotated by usual gearing. The forms 8 print on the upper side of the paper, as at d. Usually the printing will be in a circle and any words or figures desired ma be imprinted in the circle. One form of b ank herein provided for to .be made may be used to stop the mouths of milk bottles, and by the wording thereon show who supplies the milk. These printed portions as the paper is fed are brought successively in line with the solid punches and the latter descend, pass through the holes in the stripper and act on the paper between the solid punches and the hollow die members, and cut out the printed matter from the paper, forcing the blanks into the guides.

The'paper A with the blanks removed passes out of the machine at its rear side, as'shown in Fig. 3.

An endless apron D is led about rollers d (2 The roller d having its journal in a frame E, has at one end a sprocket wheel 10 that is embraced by a sprocket chain 12 that surrounds a sprocket wheel 13 fast on the end journal of a roller D provided at its opposite end with a pulley D that is driven by power. A roller D opposed to the roller D is rotated therewith through the blanks a as they pass between said rollers. The roller 0Z about which runs the lower end of the belt D, has its journals sustained in bearings d slidably mounted on stands (Z made adjustable by screws cl, the adjustment of the roller d placing the belt at just series of chutes the proper distance from the lower ends of the guides.

The blanks as deposited on the apron with their printed sides up ermost are carried forward thereby towar the upper ends of a 7 made adjustable and inclined downwardly and some of them outwardly, as shown in Fig. 3, a chute for each longitudinal row of disks, the apron feeding the disks into the open upper ends of the chutes.

The framework E sustains a baflle plate f against which the disks strike as they leave the chutes and by which they are directed into the spade leading to the rollers D, D The rollers D, D revolve in pans G that may contain any suitable waterproofing compound usually employed for waterproofing paper, and as the disks arev fed between the rollers the waterproofing material on the rollers is applied to the disks and the edges of the disks are also coated.- Below the nip of the rollers D, D, is an assorting device shown as comprising a yoke 7 presenting grooves h, 72. and the bottom of each groove has outwardly extended fingers 71. that cross each other, and the ends of the fingers rest against the edges of the rolls so that.the alternate disks of a row of disks parallel with the longitudinal axes of the rollers D, D" are discharged onto the fingers and enter'the grooves h, k dropping therefrom into suitable boxes, and in this way each longitudinal row of disks on the apron is discharged into a box.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In apparatus of the class described, the combination with means to print legends on paper, and means to cut blanks containing the printed legends from the paper, of chutes to receive the blanks from the cutting mechanism, and means within the chutes to direct the blanks as they enter the chutes and position them with the printed side always in the same position.

2. In apparatus of the class described, the

combination with paper-feeding mechanism, means to print different legends on the p p the printed legends from the paper, of an apron situated beneath the cutting mechanism, chutes to convey the blanks from the cutting mechanism to the apron, means to move the apron, and an assorting mechanism and means to cut blanks containingto receive the blanks from the apron and as sort them that all blanks having the same legend may be kept together.

8. In apparatus of the class described, an apron to deliver a series of blanks, a series of chutes spread somewhat apart at their lower ends, and a pair of rollers into the nip of which said chutes deliver said blanks.

4. In apparatus of the class described, a

' and upon which fingers a series of blanksf pair of rollers and blank-asserting means In testimony whereof, I have signed my thereon coniprising a series of guides havname to this specification, in the presence ing projecting fingers that cross each other of two subscribing Witnesses.

- DANIEL J. BOGAN are fed, all the blanks meeting any one Witnesses: finger being delivered separately from the GEO. W. GREGORY, other blanks. CHAS. A. BROWN. 

